Man Amplifiers Would Give Men Super Human Strength
This photograph came from a vintage issue of Popular Science magazine. The invention was called “man amplifiers”. The caption on the photo says, “Superman suit is modeled by the author at Cornell Aeronautical Lab in Buffalo, NY. Joints will be powered to multiply the wearer’s strength as structure follows his movements.” This looks like something out of a Sci-Fi movie, for sure. And the concept of a suit that could give you super-human strength has carried on in fiction for years. (Think- Iron Man.) There were multiple pieces of concept art created of these Man Amplifiers, and the Cornell Lab worked on it from 1962 to 1966. If you want to see a video of their experiments, click here.
